Review of Linux Compatibility

The LogiLink WL0084B is different from the WL0084A and should not be mixed up. Both sticks use different chipsets and hence different Linux drivers. Fortunately, both sticks have slightly different housing and hence can be distinguished (the WL0084B stick is longer than the WL0084A).

The WL0084B uses the chipsatz Ralink rt5370 and has the USB ID 148f:5370

It is supported by Linux, but not by the standard kernel. Instead, the driver has to be compiled by hand. If not already installed, the package build-essentials has to be installed under Ubuntu Distributions in order to compile the driver:

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